The Little gleaner, Volumes 15-16Septimus Sears 1854 |
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... Judas , Eleazar , and Jonothan . Apelles assembled the inhabitants and explained his commission , endeavouring to persuade Mattathias to comply with the king's orders , promising him and his sons great honours and preferments ...
... Judas , Eleazar , and Jonothan . Apelles assembled the inhabitants and explained his commission , endeavouring to persuade Mattathias to comply with the king's orders , promising him and his sons great honours and preferments ...
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... Judas , surnamed Mac- cabeus , for their general , and Simon for the pre- sident of the council . He soon after died , and was interred at Modin , all the faithful Israelites making great lamentation over him . Antiochus left Judea ...
... Judas , surnamed Mac- cabeus , for their general , and Simon for the pre- sident of the council . He soon after died , and was interred at Modin , all the faithful Israelites making great lamentation over him . Antiochus left Judea ...
Page 231
... persons they should want to take charge of the slaves they intended to purchase . Judas , and his brethren , perceiving the danger to which they were exposed , resolved either to conquer Aug. 1 , 1868. ] THE LITTLE GLEANER . 231.
... persons they should want to take charge of the slaves they intended to purchase . Judas , and his brethren , perceiving the danger to which they were exposed , resolved either to conquer Aug. 1 , 1868. ] THE LITTLE GLEANER . 231.
Page 232
... Judas divided his small army , composed of only six thousand men , into four equal parts ; he took the command of the first himself , and gave the three others to his brethren . But , previous to the engagement , they all assembled by ...
... Judas divided his small army , composed of only six thousand men , into four equal parts ; he took the command of the first himself , and gave the three others to his brethren . But , previous to the engagement , they all assembled by ...
Page 233
... Judas , like a wise captain , kept his troops together in readiness , but they came to no engagement , for Georgias , having in vain sought for Judas among the mountains , whither he supposed him to have retired , returned to his camp ...
... Judas , like a wise captain , kept his troops together in readiness , but they came to no engagement , for Georgias , having in vain sought for Judas among the mountains , whither he supposed him to have retired , returned to his camp ...
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Page 94 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 290 - GUIDE me, O Thou Great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land ; I am weak, but Thou art mighty ; Hold me with Thy powerful hand ; Bread of Heaven ! Feed me till I want no more.
Page 112 - And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid ; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
Page 128 - What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise, for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all chapter 3: 9 5 under sin, "as it is written, 'There is none righteous, no, not one; " there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. "They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 215 - As for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it. and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 117 - And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said ; but him they saw not.
Page 94 - PAGAN has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.
Page 115 - And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
Page 301 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee ; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 111 - Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria : he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.